Re: [workbike] war and workbikes

> it might be
> good for press use, as a friend of mine asking me whether she take her
> bike there, or not.

On the BBC this morning - one European journalist found dead, two 
narrowly avoided kidnap.  Probably not good for your health by any 
mode of transport.

> > Think how many Broxes we could sell the Indonesian government
> > for the price of the few dozen jet fighter planes the UK actually did
> > sell them...
> 
> When (not if) the time come. I think we have the facility to make some
> (not Brox, the workbike)

Whatever kind of workbike you need, I would hope.  If people 
outside the first world can't afford our workbikes, perhaps we 
should be licensing improved designs on reasonable terms?

I had a mail recently from a Chinese manufacturer you would never 
of heard of, turning out five million groupsets a year - all copies of 
the 1980's Shimano range, down to the stickers.  There's got to be 
a better way of working than that, both for them and for Shimano.  
Can't see the Chinese going for incompatible components that 
change every year though...

Daniel
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  • Re: [workbike] war and workbikes
    • From: Gustar Mono <mono@bdg.centrin.net.id>